1 Half a dozen jovial lads were talking about skates in another part of the room, and she longed to go and join them, for skating was one of the joys of her life.
2 Such plays and tableaux, such sleigh rides and skating frolics, such pleasant evenings in the old parlor, and now and then such gay little parties at the great house.
3 Everybody is so hateful, I'll ask Laurie to go skating.
4 Laurie did not see, for he was carefully skating along the shore, sounding the ice, for a warm spell had preceded the cold snap.
5 But when snow had ended the skating and she tried to get up a moonlight sliding party, the matrons hesitated to stir away from their radiators and their daily bridge-whist imitations of the city.
6 She had, she meditated, passed through the novelty of seeing the town and meeting people, of skating and sliding and hunting.
7 Dancing became popular now, just as roller skating had been the summer before.
8 Those who prefer to, go on with the two-step, but the majority go through an intricate series of motions, resembling more fancy skating than a dance.
9 There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learners clinging to chairs with timid, awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic motives.
10 Linon, said something to her, and went towards the pavilion where the ladies took off their skates.
11 At that moment one of the young men, the best of the skaters of the day, came out of the coffee-house in his skates, with a cigarette in his mouth.
12 Taking a run, he dashed down the steps in his skates, crashing and bounding up and down.
13 He took off his skates, and overtook the mother and daughter at the entrance of the gardens.
14 Amy heard the clash of skates, and looked out with an impatient exclamation.
15 Pile our things on her, while I get off these confounded skates, cried Laurie, wrapping his coat round Amy, and tugging away at the straps which never seemed so intricate before.